Historical Events In 1968

Jun 04   On this day in history dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70  

Jun 05   On this day in history senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. 68  

Jun 05   Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day in the year 1968.  

Jun 05   In the year 1968 uS Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles  

Jun 06   In the year 1968 franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies  

Jun 06   On this day in history senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles.  

Jun 07   Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60 on this day in history.  

Jun 07   Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination on this day in history.  

Jun 08   In the year 1968 gary Puckett &The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"  

Jun 08   James Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport on this day in history.  

Jun 08   In the year 1968 new colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted  

Jun 08   On this day in history rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"  

Jun 10   On this day in history yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65  

Jun 12   Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

Jun 14   Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51 in the year 1968.  

Jun 15   On this day in history john Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral  

Jun 15   On this day in history samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88  

Jun 18   Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale &rental of housing in the year 1968.  

Jun 19   In the year 1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign  

Jun 20   Jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds on this day in history.  

Jun 21   Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91 in the year 1968.  

Jun 21   On this day in history supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns  

Jun 24   In the year 1968 canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner  

Jun 24   In the year 1968 deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion  

Jun 24   Joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title in the year 1968.  

Jun 24   On this day in history resurrection City closed  

Jun 25   Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43 in the year 1968.  

Jun 26   Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US on this day in history.  

Jun 27   On this day in history ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague  

Jun 27   Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies on this day in history.  

Jun 28   On this day in history daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers  

Jun 29   In the year 1968 kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66  

Jun 30   On this day in history gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections  

Jun 30   On this day in history john Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73  

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Jan 02   Cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions)  

Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion  

Jan 02   Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born on this day in history.  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star  

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa)  

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah)  

Jan 03   Thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos) was born in the year 1968.  

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.  

Jan 04   Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83 in the year 1968.  

Jan 05   Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 in the year 1968.  

Jan 06   On this day in history kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81  

Jan 07   On this day in history death of prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)  

Jan 09   Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide died in the year 1968.  

Jan 10   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73  

Jan 11   On this day in history death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)